Care Home roles in Chelmsford
If you want care home work in Chelmsford, on days, nights or weekends, Protocol Healthcare Services can put you in front of the settings that are hiring. We recruit across the whole team, from Healthcare Assistants through to Registered Nurses.
Working around Chelmsford
Broomfield Hospital anchors a good deal of the health provision around Broomfield and Springfield, and the settings we recruit for sit close to it. Essex County Council commissions much of the care in the area, and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust runs the clinical side.
We fill posts in Broomfield, Springfield, Great Baddow and Galleywood and out towards Moulsham, Writtle and Chelmer Village. CM1, CM2 and CM3 come up most often, and work extends through Essex.
A typical shift
- ✓ Activities, companionship and keeping families informed
- ✓ Clear record keeping and handover between shifts
- ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
- ✓ Supporting residents at mealtimes and with nutrition
- ✓ Mobility support and safe moving and handling
- ✓ Medication support appropriate to your role and training
Shifts and contracts
You set your availability. Plenty of the people we place around Moulsham work three or four shifts and keep the rest of the week their own. Most people settle into a handful of regular services, often within a few miles of Great Baddow.
Agency and permanent are both on offer. Picking up shifts in two or three services around Springfield is a low-risk way to find out where you want to be.
What you will need
- ✓Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required
- ✓An enhanced DBS check, which we can arrange
- ✓The right to work in the UK
- ✓Reliability and a genuinely person-centred approach
- ✓NMC registration if you are applying for a Registered Nurse post
How we work with you
One consultant looks after you, knows the difference between the services in Broomfield and Moulsham, and is reachable when a shift throws something up. We recruit from our offices in Edgware and Bournemouth and place people nationwide; there is no branch in Chelmsford itself, which we would rather say plainly.
Work in Basildon and Harlow often suits the same people, so tell us how far you are willing to go.
Send your availability and what you are qualified for, and a consultant will call you back about work around Galleywood. There are immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Call 020 8951 4510 or use the contact form.
Care Home Jobs in Chelmsford, answered
Not always. Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required We provide training, and your consultant will match you to settings around Chelmsford that fit what you have done before.
Day, night and weekend shifts, on full-time and part-time patterns. You set your availability and we work to it. Once you are established we can offer regular ongoing shifts rather than one-offs.
Both. We recruit for temporary and permanent positions, and many people start on agency shifts around Chelmsford before moving into a permanent post once they have found a service that suits them.
Across nursing homes, residential homes, dementia units and specialist care settings. In practice that means Broomfield, Springfield, Great Baddow, Galleywood and Moulsham, covering CM1, CM2 and CM3, and out into Essex. Broomfield Hospital is the main hospital in the area.
We have immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Once your registration, right-to-work and DBS checks are in place, shifts can usually follow quickly. Call 020 8951 4510 or send us your details to get started.
Care Home Jobs near Chelmsford
Looking for work in Chelmsford?
Register and a consultant will be in touch about shifts around Broomfield, Great Baddow and the wider Essex area.